Brendan O'Connor

Writer and Journalist

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Reporting

Beyond All Boundaries: The transhumanist fantasies animating the Enhanced Games, The Baffler, June 2025

Among the Thugs: How the far-right beat went from backwater to basic, The Baffler, January 2024

When the Party’s Over: Organizing after Bernie, The Baffler, May 2021

How to Build a Global Abolition Movement, VICE, December 2020

The Accelerating Gyre: The American right wants to get on with “the cleansing fire”, The Baffler, July 2020

Rent Is Due: As tenants face impossible choices, debates emerge over how to organize, Jewish Currents, March 2020

Border Profiteers: A visit to America’s leading trade show for state violence, The Baffler, July 2019

How Fossil Fuel Money Made Climate Change Denial the Word of God, Splinter, July 2017

Right-Wing Billionaires Are Buying Themselves a New Constitution, Splinter, April 2017

Friendly Fire in the American Patriot Death Cult, Gawker, April 2016


Essays and Commentary

The Ordinary is a Horror: Abolition, Hegemony, and the State, Salvage, Spring/Summer 2022

The Capitol riot wasn't a fringe 'uprising'. It was enabled by very deep pockets, The Guardian, January 2021

A Preview of What’s to Come, The Nation, January 2021

The Deserving Migrant: A false dichotomy haunts Democratic immigration reform, The Baffler, March 2020

Too Close to Call: VAR and soccer’s big data problem, The Baffler, January 2020


Book Reviews

Global Tech Supply Chains Are As Complex As a Circuit Board, Inkstick, May 2023

The Long Crisis on Rikers Island: How New York lost control of its most infamous jail complex, The Baffler, May 2022

Impossible Contradictions: When capitalism and nativism find themselves at a crossroads, The Baffler, February 2020

Mods!: Contra Antisocial, gatekeepers won’t save us, The Baffler, October 2019

The Beautiful Game’s Ugly Speculators: Or, there is no ethical soccer under capitalism, The Baffler, March 2019

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